Working Papers

It Takes a Village Election : Turnover and Performance in Local Bureaucracies, with Samuel Bazzi, Benjamin Marx, Mahvish Shaukat, and Andreas Stegmann. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper. NBER working paper version.

International Migration, Exchange Rate Shocks, and Education Investment. Revise and Resubmit, The Economic Journal.

Less Is More? Maximizing Charitable Donations during Crises: An Online Field Experiment, with Gedeon Lim and Yohanes Eko Riyanto. Revise and Resubmit, Management Science.

Linking Vocational Schools and Industry: Effects on Teachers in Indonesia, with César Garro-Marín.

Expanding Access in a Semi-Public Education Market: Evidence from a Large High School Expansion, with César Garro-Marín.

Publications

Religion, Education, and the State, with Samuel Bazzi and Benjamin Marx. Review of Economic Studies (2025). [working paper version] [NBER WP version]. 

Education for the Masses or the Pious? Public and Islamic Schools in Indonesia (with Samuel Bazzi, Benjamin Marx). In D. Rohner and E. Zhuravskaya (eds.). Nation Building: Big Lessons from Successes and Failures. Paris, France: CEPR Press. 2023

The Impact of Sending Top College Graduates to Rural Primary Schools. Journal of Southeast Asian Economies Vol. 39, Special Issue: Quality of Basic Education in Southeast Asia (February 2023), pp. S62-S79 (18 pages). [ADB Inst WP. Presentation]

Work in Progress

Changing Norms of Corruption Among Future Public Servants, with Samuel Bazzi, Benjamin Marx, Mahvish Shaukat, and Andreas Stegmann.